TrueNAS Scale 23.10.1.3 Jellyfin iGPU Transcoding

[newbitron]

I have TrueNAS Scale (23.10.1.3) running Jellyfin (10.8.13.1) with and Intel i5-7600.

Code:

admin@truenas[~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 05)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 (rev 04)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH Thermal Subsystem
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH CSME HECI #1
00:16.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Device a2bd
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH SATA controller [AHCI mode]
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH LPC Controller (Q270)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family Power Management Controller
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH HD Audio
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family SMBus Controller
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (5) I219-LM

Graphics 630 is recognized and in the jellyfin settings I am able to allocate i915 GPU, but when enabling hardware transcoding (Intel QuickSync) in Jellyfin it will still only direct play.

Some media will play fine with direct play, but others will heavily drop frames.

Anything else to try and get transcoding working?
Thank You!

 

[Jorsher]

Direct play is what you want, typically. I'm a Plex user so don't have much experience with Jellyfin, but it's probably similar in that it will direct play when possible. I'm not sure that 'direct play' indicates that transcoding isn't working.

In what situations are frames being dropped? On some of my high bitrate media that would peak far over 100mbps, there would be buffering because I was using the TV app and manufacturers are too cheap to put a NIC beyond 100mbps in a TV. Is this on LAN or remote? It sounds like the issue is throughput.

 

[newbitron]

Yeah. I would rather the direct play if it was smooth. I was thinking that transcoding would help the skipping, but I may be mistaken there. It's odd. Some of the direct play is fine, but other media is dropping around 5 frames per second. Some 4k media will stream fine at 20+ Mbps bitrate, but others at 1080p and 2Mbps will drop frames. The 4k I tested was transcoding because the codec was not supported and that was smooth.

This is a LAN setup and the problems are the same on all devices whether hardline or wireless.